July 25th
A roadmap will take us where we want to be.
ECC just released their Q3 2025 roadmap, Unlike other roadmaps of the past this was a collaboration effort between the different orgs attending Z|ECC Summit. I’ve been biting my nails not to post that picture of the whiteboard. After all, we are a privacy project! And we had agreed that we would wait for the host of the event to publish it first. This roadmap is a best effort panorama of what’s to come. Transparency is a core value of the Zcash project and we must be clear when communicating so we don’t generate the wrong expectations. All teams are running at a 100% capacity and unexpected events could have impacts on the different teams schedules. We will keep up with the efforts of keeping the community up-to-date with progress. So let’s go with our traditional weekly update
Outreach
Status: resumed
We are responding to ecosystem partners that are reaching out about Zcashd deprecation. In the following days we will coordinate how the Zallet Alpha phase will be carried out.
Zebra
Project Roadmap board
Priority board
As we informed last week, Zebra 2.4.0 has been removed and 2.4.1 is being released with instructions for affected users to fix their db migration issues.
The Zebra team continues optimizing the Zebra codebase by removing crates that ended up not being much used (zebra-sync and zebra-grpc) and also deleting duplicated code by making a more extensive use of the zcash-primitives create maintained by ECC on librustzcash. Regtest improvements are on their way and RPC tests keep being worked on to have a solid benchmark towards deprecating Zcash. The Zebra team has also been reviewing and merging contributions from many developers of our ecosystems. Speaking of reviews, NU 6.1 implementation is in review!
Zaino (ZingoLabs)
- Status: in progress
Zaino folks are wrapping up their finalized and non-finalized state refactor for it to track the different competing chain tips of the PoW protocol. They have also reported that parity with Lightwalletd functionality to serve mobile wallets and light clients will be code complete in two weeks!
In-Memory backend wrap up
- status: pending review 
This has been falling through the cracks a bit, we still need to provide reviews to this PR https://github.com/zcash/librustzcash/pull/1634
Kris Nuttycombe will try to make some room on his schedule to complete this review.
Zallet full node wallet
- Status: in progress
tracking work on this repository.
Zallet keeps progressing towards its alpha phase. The ECC core team is working on the necessary pieces for P2SH work to be available in the zash_script crate and looking forward to including it in both Zallet and keystone. This is a key piece for the NU 6.1 coinholder-directed grants to work.
Call for Testers!
This won’t be a public alpha. We are looking for people that can build Zallet from code and run it with their Zebra nodes.
Call for Developers!
If you want to start working on something Zcash related and you don’t know where to start, Zallet is a good way to do it. With many RPC methods already developed that can be good examples for the creation of others, the project is in a good shape to start taking contributions from the broad community. Fork the Zallet repo and start hacking!.
Block Explorer Support
- Status: Testing
Specifically on Block Explorer support another small change that fell through the cracks in development [#9427] Fix: possibly change “lockbox” vs “deferred” value pool name is still in review
We added a circulating Supply API for the block explorer to fix a problem on Coin Market Cap’s display of current supply .
Pending reviews:
Regtest? What is that?
- Status: in review
I’ve addressed a second round of comments and am waiting for more.
Thanks for reading!